Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, December 15, 1999

1999-12-15 04:00:00 PDT VALLEJO -- After six frustrating and fruitless days of searching, police said yesterday that they were contacting more than 100 sex offenders in Vallejo for any possible connection to a missing 7-year-old girl.

Authorities will release two composite sketches this morning of two people witnesses saw with a girl matching Xiana Fairchild's description last Thursday in downtown Vallejo.

Several witnesses have told police they may have seen the girl as late as 10 a.m. She was dropped off at a bus stop at 7:30 a.m. Dozens of police and FBI agents have been scouring the town, using bloodhounds, helicopters and divers, but they have turned up no sign of her or any of her possessions.

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Along with the search efforts, investigators were also combing through nearly 200 tips phoned into a police hotline. And although Xiana's disappearance remains a total mystery -- police said yesterday it is not not necessarily a child abduction.

"It's one possibility," said Vallejo Police Lt. JoAnn West. "Obviously, as time goes by, it may begin to look like an abduction, but we really can't at this point afford to focus in any one particular area."

West said police are calling dozens of registered sex offenders, including many who live within blocks of the Georgia Street apartment where Xiana lives with her mother.

And police disclosed yesterday that a dog trained to sniff out cadavers picked up a scent at the Vallejo waterfront during the weekend. But West said the dog could have been smelling a scent from 1996, when a young woman threw her 3-year-old son into Mare Island Strait. Divers have searched the strait several times since Sunday but have turned up nothing.

Xiana was dropped off at a school bus stop at Maine and Marin streets in downtown Vallejo around 7:30 a.m. Thursday by her mother's boyfriend, Robert Turnbough. The bus picks up students at 8:20 a.m.

West said the witnesses who reported possibly seeing Xiana later were reinterviewed, leading to the sketch that will be released. Xiana was familiar with at least part of downtown. Robinson reported that she often walked to the bus stop from her family's apartment, about three blocks away.

Xiana moved to Vallejo in the past year after living in Colorado with her great-grandmother. Her natural father is deceased, family members said.

Police continue to say that there are no suspects and that they do not believe any family members are responsible. However several of Xiana's relatives, including Robinson, have leveled accusations at each other. Robinson told reporters on Friday that she believed that her mother, Diane Raymundo, was responsible for Xiana's disappearance.

Robinson and Raymundo had a recent falling-out, with Robinson asking her mother to move out of the apartment they shared. Raymundo denied last week that she had taken Xiana or knew where the girl is.

There has also been criticism of the family for allowing Xiana to be dropped off to wait for the bus alone for 50 minutes.

Last night, Robinson and Turnbough acknowledged that they had criminal records, which include allegations of child neglect and for Robinson, grand theft auto charges. But they said that had nothing to do with Xiana's disappearance.

Asked about allegations from other family members that they had been unfit parents, Robinson said "they're liars."

Police continue to emphasize the search efforts, much of which were concentrated on the city's waterfront. West said dogs trained to pick up the scent of a dead body keyed in on the marina. Divers with underwater cameras searched the area repeatedly, including a seawall where a body could become trapped, but they found nothing.

In 1996, police arrested Lakessia Edwards for throwing her son, O'Shay Love, into the waters off Vallejo. Authorities did not find his body until it surfaced 10 days later. And that case could now be further complicating the search for Xiana.

"We think that (O'Shay's) body was trapped under the seawall," West said. "There's a potential that the dog is smelling the scent still."

A $10,000 reward is being offered for leads that could aid in Xiana's safe return. Anyone with information should call the Vallejo Police Department at (707) 648-4321.